Introduction: VPS service from Webhorizon in Poland
Webhorizon, a webhosting provider from India, had posted an offer on the low end talk about a VPS in November 2021. The location was interesting: Romania. I already had a VPS in that location with the once popular (and now maligned host, Hostsolutions).
For the Webhorizon VPS, the specifications and the price looked interesting enough since this was a pre-launch offer. At that time I was in the process of consolidating the providers, and since I already had a couple of services with Webhorizon, namely an email service as well as a NAT, or a network attached terminal in Singapore. Therefore, it made sense to have one more service with them.
This VPS comes with OVZ technology for virtual private server. There were issues galore right from the get go when I ordered this particular service. Their upstream provider in Romania kept delaying the delivery date and as a result of which the VPS never got provisioned. So around December WebHorizon asked if I would be interested in getting VPs in Poland, and I agreed to it.
In terms of network performance or speeds, Poland or Romania did not make too much of a difference. The processor seemed decent: an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU at 2600 Mhz, 80 GB disk space and 4 GB RAM. Things checked out well.
Update February 2022
I had run YABS benchmark in November, and again in January. The latter for the following reason: In January 2022, WebHorizon announced that they had received status as as a network provider, and they were essentially going to change the IP address and probably the network a selected set of virtual private servers.
They wanted to know if I would be interested in getting the IP address changed sooner or by 31st of January. By the end of January 2022, they were going to change the ip address and network settings for everyone. Anyway, so around the 20th of January, I opened January I opened a ticket and asked them to make the changes.
I was traveling at that point in time, it was only yesterday that I saw the ticket, noticed the change in IP address, and I fired up the system. And to my surprise, the processor had been upgraded to a Ryzen 7. So I ran the YABS benchmarking script again.
Improvements in disk speeds, network and most importantly CPU are noticeable. This system has not been put to production use just because of these changes. But looking at the performance, it is a matter of time before something is set up!
| Comparing the results from geekbench | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test | ||||
| Before (November 2021) | Now | (February 2022) | ||
| Single Core | 3324 | 5035 | |||
| Multi Core | 7721 | 10388 | |||
| Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test | ||||
| Before (November 2021) | Now | (February 2022) | ||
| Single Core | 931 | 993 | |||
| Multi Core 2021 | 2398 |
VPS configuration as was received in November 2021
$ lscpu virtual CPU(s): 3 On-line CPU(s) Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 23 Model: 8 Model name: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor Stepping: 2 CPU MHz: 1550.000
Checking memory
$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 6000 24 5918 9 57 5966
Swap: 2000 0 2000
Finally, checking disk space
$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ploop47303p1 79G 815M 75G 2% / none 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 3.0G 9.1M 3.0G 1% /run tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /run/shm
Running YABS Benchmark on the VPS
Sat Nov 6 15:49:53 UTC 2021
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
CPU cores : 3 @ 1550.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 5.8 GiB
Swap : 1.9 GiB
Disk : 78.6 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 157.47 MB/s (39.3k) | 437.30 MB/s (6.8k)
Write | 157.88 MB/s (39.4k) | 439.61 MB/s (6.8k)
Total | 315.36 MB/s (78.8k) | 876.91 MB/s (13.7k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 638.59 MB/s (1.2k) | 688.45 MB/s (672)
Write | 672.53 MB/s (1.3k) | 734.30 MB/s (717)
Total | 1.31 GB/s (2.5k) | 1.42 GB/s (1.3k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 257 Mbits/sec | 185 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 216 Mbits/sec | 778 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | 707 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (1G) | 88.2 Mbits/sec | 643 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 125 Mbits/sec | 321 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 195 Mbits/sec | 347 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 132 Mbits/sec | 81.9 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 122 Mbits/sec | 77.8 Mbits/sec
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 214 Mbits/sec | 614 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 207 Mbits/sec | 264 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 145 Mbits/sec | 182 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (1G) | 114 Mbits/sec | 636 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 274 Mbits/sec | 480 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 238 Mbits/sec | 313 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 931
Multi Core | 2021
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10860495
Results from Running bench.monster
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -in -asia -i --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Region: India https://bench.monster v.1.5.7 2021-10-06 Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (64 Bit) Virt/Kernel : OpenVZ / 3.10.0-1160.21.1.vz7.174.13 CPU Model : AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor CPU Cores : 3 @ 1550.000 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled Load Average : 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 Total Space : 79G (1.5G ~2% used) Total RAM : 6000 MB (336 MB + 1273 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 2000 MB (0 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 9:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : AS201814, Meverywhere sp. z o.o. Organization : WebHorizon Location : Warsaw, Poland / PL Region : Mazovia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update February 2022:
I re-ran YABS benchmark script to see if the new network and processor had any impact, and was positively surprised!
Wed Feb 2 07:54:04 PST 2022
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor
CPU cores : 3 @ 3900.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 5.8 GiB
Swap : 1.9 GiB
Disk : 78.6 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 140.85 MB/s (35.2k) | 488.70 MB/s (7.6k)
Write | 141.22 MB/s (35.3k) | 491.27 MB/s (7.6k)
Total | 282.08 MB/s (70.5k) | 979.97 MB/s (15.3k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 769.15 MB/s (1.5k) | 636.02 MB/s (621)
Write | 810.02 MB/s (1.5k) | 678.38 MB/s (662)
Total | 1.57 GB/s (3.0k) | 1.31 GB/s (1.2k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 785 Mbits/sec | 477 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 784 Mbits/sec | 413 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 818 Mbits/sec | 414 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | 170 Mbits/sec | 200 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 649 Mbits/sec | 121 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 647 Mbits/sec | 139 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 266 Mbits/sec | 140 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 350 Mbits/sec | 119 Mbits/sec
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 717 Mbits/sec | 668 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 710 Mbits/sec | 570 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 724 Mbits/sec | 462 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | 112 Mbits/sec | 322 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 419 Mbits/sec | 191 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 293 Mbits/sec | 147 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 5085
Multi Core | 10388
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16479409
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 993
Multi Core | 2398
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12548246
Results from benchmark run in January 2022
$ wget -qO- yabs.sh | bash -s -- -4
Sun Jan 2 18:03:33 UTC 2022
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
CPU cores : 3 @ 2800.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 5.8 GiB
Swap : 1.9 GiB
Disk : 78.6 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 147.55 MB/s (36.8k) | 339.93 MB/s (5.3k)
Write | 147.94 MB/s (36.9k) | 341.72 MB/s (5.3k)
Total | 295.49 MB/s (73.8k) | 681.66 MB/s (10.6k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 357.70 MB/s (698) | 543.24 MB/s (530)
Write | 376.71 MB/s (735) | 579.42 MB/s (565)
Total | 734.42 MB/s (1.4k) | 1.12 GB/s (1.0k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 643 Mbits/sec | 88.1 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 427 Mbits/sec | 372 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 607 Mbits/sec | 806 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | 303 Mbits/sec | 197 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 447 Mbits/sec | 334 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 345 Mbits/sec | 181 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 275 Mbits/sec | 142 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 189 Mbits/sec | 90.4 Mbits/sec
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 430 Mbits/sec | 50.9 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 541 Mbits/sec | 56.3 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 361 Mbits/sec | 255 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | 235 Mbits/sec | 48.2 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 290 Mbits/sec | 360 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 368 Mbits/sec | 197 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 3324
Multi Core | 7221
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16454442
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